ruling the root

I read Salon’s review of Ruling the Root about the root dns servers for .com and so forth. It sounds pretty pessimistic and predicts that intellectual property and law enforcement have taken over the assignment of .com, etc names for their own nefarious purposes.

If it really becomes a problem I don’t see why people won’t just setup alternative root name servers. All my friends and I would use them to get around on the Internet and communicate with each other, and fallback to the ICANN TLDs as needed.

Obviously, the new private TLDs only work for people clued in but is that really a problem for the most part?

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